Felt

Pronunciation

• IPA: /fÉ›lt/
• Rhymes: -É›lt

Old English felt, from Proto-Germanic *feltaz (compare Dutch vilt, German Filz, Danish filt), from Proto-Indo-European *pilto, *pilso 'felt' (compare Latin pilleus ("felt") (adj.), Old Church Slavonic рлъсть, Albanian plis, Ancient Greek πῖλος), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil.

Noun

1. A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.
• Shakespeare, King Lear, act 4, scene 6:It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt.
2. A hat made of felt.
3. (obsolete) A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
• 1707, John Mortimer, The whole art of husbandry:To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose.

Related terms

• felt grain: the grain of timber which is transverse to the annular rings or plates; the direction of the medullary rays in oak and some other timber. — Knight
• felt-tip pen
• coated felt sheet
• saturated felt

Full definition of felt

Verb

1. (transitive) To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
2. (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, felt.to felt the cylinder of a steam engine

Old English fēled, corresponding to feel + -ed.

Verb

1. felt

   (past of feel)

Adjective

1. That has been experienced or perceived.
• 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 257:Conversions to Islam can therefore be a deeply felt aesthetic experience that rarely occurs in Christian accounts of conversion, which are generally the source rather than the result of a Christian experience of beauty.

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